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Why do you need an EMIS?
An Energy Management Information System, or EMIS, is the layer most factories have never had: permanent instruments on the equipment, every reading arriving in one place, and a picture of the building that is current rather than four weeks old.
Most of what we install pays for itself, and you can see the arithmetic for that on the ROI page. The payback is not why people keep us around for years, though. They keep us around because they can finally see what the factory is doing hour by hour and line by line, and once you can see it you start running it differently.
Dave and Tom, on a factory floor
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What the visibility actually buys you.
Saving money is the easy half to explain. These three are the ones clients bring up a year in.
Communication
When the maintenance lead, the operations manager and the person who signs the utility cheque are all looking at the same screen, the meeting stops being about whose number is right and starts being about what to do next.
KPIs that are actually measured
Cost per unit, energy per tonne, runtime, downtime and product temperature, recorded continuously rather than reconstructed at month end from a bill and a good memory.
Competitiveness
Two factories make the same part. One of them knows what an hour of production costs and can tell you which shift is cheaper, and that is the one that prices the job right.
And it is both halves on the same screen: the utilities that pay the project back first, and the production and process numbers most factories have simply never had.
A monthly review, dashboard on the screen
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Most Canadian factories are still analog.
There is remarkable equipment in Canadian manufacturing, and almost none of it is talking to anybody.
Where there are controls at all, they are often a SCADA system somebody commissioned twenty or thirty years ago: one screen, in one room, doing exactly the job it was built for and nothing else. Everything outside that room is a monthly bill, a clipboard, and somebody’s memory of how it usually runs.
That is not a criticism. It is just where the industry is. But it does mean the questions that matter most cannot be answered. What did that line cost to run last Tuesday? Is the compressor working harder than it was in March? Why was the water bill up nine per cent?
A meter answers all three inside a week. The overnight hours are usually where the answer is hiding, because a building that is shut should draw almost nothing and very few of them do. On a monthly bill none of that is visible, and on a dial nobody reads it is worse than invisible.
A dusty analog meter on a factory wall
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An analog factory has nothing to feed an AI.
Everybody is being told to do something with AI at the moment, and the part that tends not to get said is that AI is going to play with your data. That is the food it needs, and an analog factory cannot feed it.
You cannot ask a model why Tuesday costs more than Thursday if nobody ever wrote down what Tuesday cost. Digital transformation is not a software purchase you make one afternoon. It starts with measurement, and measurement takes time to accumulate, so everything genuinely useful that comes afterwards is built on a few years of honest, minute-by-minute history.
The data has to exist before anything clever can be done with it.
That is the least glamorous argument for starting now and it is the one we believe most. A factory that begins recording this year will have something worth pointing a model at in three years. A factory that waits will be starting from a blank page while its competitors are already three years in.
Our process
How a project actually runs.
Five steps, in the order they happen. The last one carries on for as long as you want us there.
- 01
Technical Site Assessment
We walk your floor with you, usually for half a day. We look at what you make, what it costs you to make it, and which of those numbers nobody currently has.
- 02
Ecosystem Design
Then we design the sensor network around your lines and your shifts: what to measure, where it goes, what it talks to, and the order that pays back soonest.
- 03
Procure & Install
We source the hardware, configure and bench-test it before it ships, and install it ourselves. Most sensors go in without stopping the line.
- 04
Configure & Commission
We build the dashboards, alerts and reports around your factory, then commission them with the people who are going to use them rather than handing over a login.
- 05
Ongoing Support & Monthly Reviews
Every month we sit down with your team, go through what the meters found, and agree what is worth doing next. Your data ages like a fine wine, getting richer and more valuable the longer it runs. Most of these projects turn into partnerships that run for years, and that is the part that does not end.
What we do, and what we don’t.
We give you data you have never had so that your team can run the factory better, and we are not going to pretend we can fix your boiler. That is your millwright’s job and they are better at it than we would be, but nobody has been able to tell them what the boiler does at two in the morning, every night, for four months. The other thing we bring is every other factory floor we have walked, because the fix a dairy found last spring is very often the one a foundry needs this year, and we cross-pollinate it with no names and no client numbers attached.
We’re not a vendor. We’re a partner for the long run.
H6: no pricing philosophy is current or publishable, so this section describes the RELATIONSHIP, which is service description and not price.
Digital transformation starts with one meter.
Dave or someone from our team comes to your factory and spends a few hours walking the floor with you. At the end of it we tell you honestly what we saw, what we would recommend and what the return looks like, and if the numbers are not there we say that too.
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